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How was the poll tax used as a voting qualifications?
A poll tax was used to keep African Americans from voting. Most African Americans did not have very high paying jobs and could not afford to vote. This assured that whites were the predominant race to participate in electing officials.
How did the 24th Amendment affect African American voting rights?
Amendment 24 of the U.S. Constitution provided more opportunity for African - Americans to vote by barring Poll Taxes, a tax that must be paid by anyone wishing to cast a vote.
Why did southern state governments create poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
To Women African-American’s right to vote
How did the Southerners try to keep blacks from voting?
The African Americans were kept from voting with poll taxes, which meant they had to pay to vote and literacy tests where if they failed them they couldn't vote, and since many at the time were illiterate and poor they couldn't vote. Also fear played a factor the Ku Klux Klan would threaten them to keep them away from the polls.
What was the poll tax and literacy test?
The poll tax and the literacy tests were methods used to prevent certain classes of people from voting.The poll tax, aimed at lower socioeconomic classes, was a tax one had to pay in order to vote.The literacy test, generally implemented against African Americans pre Civil Rights movement, was a test whose alleged purpose was to determine that a voter could read the ballot; however many times authorities would give prospective voters foreign reading materials in order to ensure they weren't allowed to vote.
